River City: Rival Showdown

Game Info

River City Ransom is back, rebuilt from the ground up! Rekindle old rivalries and relive past rumbles through a completely revamped story! A re-release of the classic Nintendo 3DS sandbox brawler, this version of the game has been updated with tweaked controls, graphical upgrades, and a new online mode in the form of Double Dragon Duel 2023.

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Companies

APLUS Co., Ltd.

Released

10/11/2023

Platforms

Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5

Type

Role-playing (RPG), Hack and slash/Beat 'em up, Adventure

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Saturday, June 1, 2024 7:07:14 PM

9 Steam users votes up

Brispir

Steam user

This is what I have been wanting for over 30 years: A remake of River City Ransom that expands on the original. The NES game did a great job of world building, and this game expands on it. If you know the NES game well, it takes getting used to learning the Japanese names for people. Alex's real name is Kunio, Ryan's real name is Riki, Simon / Slick is Yamada, etc. This game does explain a lot of things that weren't really explained in the NES game.
The negative reviews of this game is due to a lag in pressing a button and action being taken by the character. Sometimes the character wouldn't respond to button presses. This issue has been fixed. This game was a port of a Nintendo 3DS game, so getting it to PC and working wasn't a simple copy and paste job. They did update the game so the lag isn't there anymore and the game is fully playable.
Only complaint I have is that we don't have the free smile from Merv's Burger Joint and Hack' Chicken Shack from the NES games. The shops from the NES games aren't there anymore. There's some shops but it doesn't feel the same. Gone are Mao's place, Chez Walle's, Amy's Sweet Tooth, etc. I used to like imagining what the stories behind those places were, and what kinda customers frequented those places.
There is also a bonus game, which is a fighting game using River City Ransom characters. Some of them have their English names and some with their Japanese names.... which is werid. But it's fun to play too.
All in all, I like this game, and it's still fun to beat up the bad guys and take their money, jumping and throwing items at them, picking them up and throwing them around. So much fun. There are two more games on the 3DS that were released after this that I'm hoping we will see. If the developers see this, PLEASE bring us the other two games: Tokyo Rumble and Knights of Justice. I'll buy them immediately.

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Storyline

This game acts a sequel to Nekketsu Kōha Kunio-kun Special, its prequel Riki Densetsu, and River City: Tokyo Rumble. The events of River City Super Sports Challenge ~All Stars Special~ take place directly after this game. Kunio, the top delinquent of Nekketsu High School is a standout in street fighting and sports, and an icon to the student body. He's won glory traveling overseas to win sporting events and taking on the yakuza to rescue his friends. His burning passion for righting wrongs and fearless courage to fight to the finish has made him a living legend... The infamous hot-blooded tough guy Kunio of Nekketsu High School. "What a beautiful night." Kunio is walking through Yumemicho after dark when, just as he yawns and thinks about heading home, on a street on his own turf he is attacked by a mysterious duo. In the middle of the fight, the duo flees once they hear the sound of police sirens. Hiroshi and Sugata rush in to check on Kunio, who has no idea who the assailants were. What he did know was that they were tough, he was not sure if he could last forever in a fight with them. They set up an ambush against him at night, when they knew he would be on his own. There must be a reason behind it. Kunio's intuition tells him that something bigger is afoot... Kunio learns from Hiroshi the next day that his attackers are twin brothers who have recently transferred to Reihou Academy, which they began to rule overnight as the top delinquents. They have clashed with other schools and have targeted their top delinquents, taking over the schools. To add to this turn of sinister events, it appears that Mami, the girlfriend of Kunio's rival Riki of Hanazono High School, has gone missing. Kunio decides to start his day by meeting up with Riki.

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